Jennifer grace
PRINCIPAL DANCER
Jennifer Grace was born in Bozeman, Montana. She trained at The Dance Center in Bozeman, The Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia and Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy in Southern California. Jennifer was hired by Tulsa Ballet’s Second Company in 2013 and was promoted to Corps de Ballet in November of that same year. By 2017 she was a Soloist with the company and had performed many Principal and Soloist roles. She has had the opportunity to perform works by choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon, Derek Deane, Ben Stevenson, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Wayne McGregor and Alejandro Cerrudo. Jennifer was Pointe Magazine's August/September 2018 Cover Star.
Hometown:
Bozeman, Montana
Dance Training and Awards:
The Dance Center
The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow, Russia Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy
Top 12 in YAGP NYC 2012 and 2013
1st place in The Music Center Spotlight Awards
Joined Colorado Ballet:
2020
Selected Roles and Ballets:
Aurora and Lilac Fairy in Angelini’s The Sleeping Beauty
Hermia and Titania in Wheeldon’s Midsummer Nights Dream
Dorothy, Glinda and Diamond Queen in Liang’s Dorothy and the Prince of
Oz
The Man I Love pas and Rhapsody in Blue Soloist in Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin
The Man I Love pas and Rhapsody in Blue Soloist in Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin
Marianela in McGregor’s Infra
Fairy Godmother in Stevenson’s Cinderella
Flora in Stevenson’s Dracula
Solo woman in Duato’s Rassemblement
Rooster Girl in Sr. Christopher
Bruce’s Rooster
Myrtha in
Angelini’s Giselle
Facinatin’
Rhythm solo and The
Man I Love pas in
Balanchine’s Who
Cares?
Dark Angel in
Balanchine’s Serenade
Mercedes and Queen of the
Dryads in
Holmes’ Don
Quixote
Purse Lady in Jerome
Robins’ Fancy
Free
Partisan Woman
in Kurt
Jooss’ Green
Table
Paul
Taylor’s Company
B
David
Dawson’s Million
Kisses
to
my
Skin
Alejandro
Cerrudo’s Second
To
Last and Extremely
Close
Alexander
Ekman’s Cacti
Going
for
Baroque and Prawn
Watching by
Val
Caniparoli
Jennifer
has
also
been
part
of
original
works
by
choreographers
such
as
Adam
Hougland,
Edwaard
Liang,
Annabelle
Lopez
Ochoa,
Hellen
Pickett,
Young
Soon-Hue,
Nicolo
Fonte,
Ma
Cong,
Jorma
Elo,
Luciano
Cannito
and
Dwight
Rhoden
Promotions:
Promoted to Principal 2021
Promoted to Principal 2021